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Jul 29, 2013 at 16:00
I'm utterly mystified as to why GitHub gets such persistent DDoS attacks. It's such an inoffensive site and has admins capable of mitigating

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Aug 7, 2026 at 22:20
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I've released difftastic 0.70! In this release: * Added Dockerfile and fish shell support * Improved Dart, Emacs Lisp, Erlang, Java, OCaml, PHP, Protocol Buffers and TOML. * A bunch of display and performance fixes.
Release 0.70.0 · Wilfred/difftastic
Release 0.70.0 · Wilfred/difftastic
Difftastic is a structural diff tool that understands syntax. See the manual to get started, and the changelog for historical changes. Diffing Improved diffing performance, particularly when diffin...
Jul 11, 2026 at 23:39
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I had a third attempt at porting difftastic from Dijkstra to A*, and I've eventually concluded that A* just isn't worth it for the implementation complexity. I had fun writing it up though, and I've even attempted ASCII art for building intuitions:
No longer pursuing A* · Wilfred/difftastic@7479636
No longer pursuing A* · Wilfred/difftastic@7479636
Closes #1007
Jul 9, 2026 at 19:44
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It's really satisfying fixing crashes in rust-analyzer. You can start from a panic message and dig until you've got a tiny Rust program that triggers the problem. (It's usually an issue with incomplete source files breaking invariants.)
fix: Crash on code actions when an unresolved module is present · rust-lang/rust-analyzer@9d343e9
fix: Crash on code actions when an unresolved module is present · rust-lang/rust-analyzer@9d343e9
Previously rust-analyzer assumed that a module always had an item list, which isn't true for unresolved modules. Handle this situation gracefully instead of panicking, and add a test. AI disc...